Real estate developers have to deposit one per cent of the project cost to Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation (BMC) in advance so that the civic body may build infrastructure such as drains, streetlights and roads

Bhubaneswar: With a view to augmenting the tax base, the state government on Monday decided to replace levy of holding tax with property tax in urban areas and also change the manner in which such tax is calculated

Bhubaneswar Development Authority (BDA) recently issued a show-cause notice to all its empanelled architects for failing to submit periodic progress reports of building plans of high-rise structures in the City

The state government will provide Rs 2,000 compensation a month to slum dwellers, who will be evicted to make way for houses to be constructed under Rajiv Awas Yojana (RAY). These houses will be handed over to them

The Bhubaneswar Development Authority (BDA) has decided to outsource its public services, such as building plan approval, allotment of housing properties and issuing of occupancy certificates, to a private party

Authorities of the development authority, which has been stung by a series of controversies over allotment of land and plots in the city will celebrate the annual day of the organisation on September 1 in an austere manner

Despite churning various programmes & polices to increase the housing-stocks in the Country, especially in the affordable housing segment, the Central and State Government (s) remains much away from the target

The Bhubaneswar Development Authority (BDA) plans to make houses available for as little as Rs 5 lakh in an affordable housing project to be implemented in public private partnership mode (PPP) on a 20-acre plot at Gothapatna

BANGALORE: Bangalore always had one major advantage large land parcels that were available at low rates. The only push needed to unlock their value and leverage their worth was accessibility. While on the one hand the Karnataka Industrial Areas Development Board (KIADB) began acquiring large tracts of land, the Bangalore Development Authority (BDA), the Bruhat Bangalore Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) and the National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) worked to bring the civic infrastructure up to cat

BHUBANESWAR: Those planning to purchase a house on the city outskirts beware!The Bhubaneswar Development Authority (BDA) has notified that building plan approval taken from the local panchayat or the block development officer after March 29, 2010, will be treated as “illegal” and “unauthorised”.

BANGALORE: The threat from the underworld is no longer restricted to the rich and real estate businessmen. A senior official of the Bangalore Development Authority was given police protection after he claimed his life is under threat.

BANGALORE: After sites, it’s now the turn of flats. Bangalore Development Authority (BDA) has arbitrarily jacked up the prices of flats by almost 100%-200%, spiking the common man’s last hope of owning a dream home in the city.